Henry Koerner Biography

a.k.a.  William Henry Dethlef Koerner
WHD was a German-American painter, illustrator, Art Editor. He attended classes at The Chicago Art Institute as well The Francis Smith Art Academy of Chicago. He moved to Wilmington, Delaware to study under Howard Pyle the "Father of American Illustration." He was an illustrator for The Chicago Tribune, The Saturday Evening Post and for plenty of other magazines/newspapers.

Henry Koerner (1915-1991) was a Jewish refugee who immigrated to the United States from Austria in 1938.

Trained as a graphic designer, he immediately produced a number U.S. propaganda poster before being drafted into the Graphics Division during WWII. He was sent overseas to document wartime life and was present at the War Crimes Trials to sketch the defendants. After the war, Koerner embraced the Magic Realism art style. He is well known for his many Time Magazine covers, which included portraits done from life of the most important people of the mid-20th century including sitting President John F. Kennedy.

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